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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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June 9, 2014
Egypt
The Banality of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
This article was originally published here on ForeignAffairs.com on Sunday, June 8, 2014. “I wish I was like Nasser,” Egypt’s new president, the retired field marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told Egyp…
April 19, 2012
United States
Middle East Matters This Week: Iran’s Negotiations, Syria’s Friends, and Egypt’s Elections
Significant Middle East Developments Syria. The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution Saturday authorizing the deployment of a thirty-person monitoring mission to oversee t…
May 29, 2012
Egypt
Morsi Not Moussa?!?!?!?!
I blew it. There is no other way of putting it. The following two sentences from a CFR “Expert Brief” that I posted on May 21st are, without a doubt, my Scott Norwood moment: The declining fortune…
May 28, 2013
United States
Masters of Disaster
A good idea never seems to go unpunished, especially inside the Beltway. My post last Thursday, “What the United States Can Do for Egypt Right Now” ruffled a few feathers. This seems rather odd becau…
May 17, 2012
Defense and Security
The World Next Week: Egyptians Pick a President, NATO Meets in Chicago, and Baghdad Hosts Iran Talks
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the presidential election in Egypt; the NATO summit in Chicago; and the P5+1’s talks with Iran in Baghdad. [audio: http://www.cfr.org/c…
